Empowered

Panel 2: No saving throw for ol' Senor Pangolin, it would appear.

Caramel Corn

Potchimew

Sarah is the only human left in a world full of mythical creatures and monsters. All she wants to do is live a quiet life, but everything changes when she meets her guardian angel, Jacob.

Stand Still, Stay Silent

Minna Sundberg

A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.

Goodbye to Halos

Valerie Halla

Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!

Anarchy Dreamers

Emily Ree

Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!

The Witch Door

Anni K.

Katariina Lehto discovers her neighbor is a witch called Jousia Muotka. Jousia introduces Katariina to the strange people and places beyond the witch door...

El Goonish Shive

Dan Shive

WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics

Sister Claire

Yamino

In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.

Jailbird

Charlie Davis

An all-ages comic about a recently escaped prisoner's struggle to understand the outside world, and vice-versa. Also, a magic cape!

Cassiopeia Quinn

Gunwild, Psudonym

A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.

Nerf Now!!

Josué Pereira

A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.

Devil's Candy

Rem, Bikkuri

A lush fantasy about boy genius Kazu Decker, the girl he constructed for his 9th grade science project, and the world of devils and monsters they live in.

Cut Time

Juby

Rel and her trusty avian friend Fugue are on a quest to save a world that's lost track of time. Follow them and their new recruits, in a story written with help from the stars.

Cyanide & Happiness

Explosm

Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.

Hazy London

Scotty

A story about messy relationships. From friendly foes to crazy families. Nothing is black and white, just full of color. But, all colors can get a little hazy...

Go Get a Roomie

Clover

Experience the queer journey of an upbeat hippie and the friendships she makes along the way! A tale of self-discovery and love of many forms.

Tigress Queen

Allison Shaw

A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.

Ghost Junk Sickness

Studio CARTRIDGE, Laura Lee

Two hunters try to survive and end up being pushed to pursue a deadly bounty dubbed "The Ghost".

Whomp!

Ronnie

A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.

Widdershins

Kate Ashwin

A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!

Paranatural

Zack Morrison

Superpowered middle schoolers fight evil spirits in their rural hometown. Come for the jokes, stay for the cast, the creatures, and the mystery that ties them all together!

Girl Genius

Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio

In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, Mad Science rules the World...with mixed success.

Wilde Life

Pascalle Lepas

Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...

Astral Aves

Moon Cabal

A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.

Atomic Robo

Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener

The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.

Monsterkind

Taylor C

Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.

Starhammer

J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian

A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions

Kiwi Blitz

Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)

Steffi thinks she can use her kiwi mech to become a superhero. This idea turns out to be very stupid.

Monster Pulse

Magnolia Porter Siddell

Four kids run afoul of a creepy secret organization's experiments, which turn their body parts into fighting monsters. Part sentimental coming-of-age story, part monster-training shonen manga, with just a bit of sci-fi body horror.

Star Impact

Jack McGee

A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!

Between Failures

Jackie Wohlenhaus

The low stakes adventures of an assorted group of 20 somethings trapped in the declining years of American retail. They are naughty and say lots of swears.

Alice and the Nightmare

Misha Krivanek

Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.

Kochab

Sarah Webb

A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.

Knights Errant

J.R. Doyle

Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.

Guilded Age

T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina

Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!

The Automan's Daughter

Mike Stamm

Aisha Osman and her uncle Siddig outwit bikers, spies and kidnappers while gearing up for a showdown with the formidable Widowmaker mecha.

Lighter Than Heir

Melissa Albino

A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.

[un]Divine

Ayme

A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.

The Sanity Circus

Windy

Magic, monsters and mysteries await in the odd city of Sanity. It's up to Attley and a colorful group of characters to find out just what is going on.

Star Trip

Gisele Weaver

Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.

Godslave

Meaghan Carter

Edith has been thrown into the dangerous world of modern-day Egyptian mythology. Fighting monsters and dealing with family drama of godly proportions.

Empowered

Adam Warren

A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.

Never Satisfied

Taylor Robin

Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.

Fireweeds Moors

Gato Iberico

A cat-headed man and a girl with a sandwich hankering accidentally end up in a myth-infused country where magic chalices are a really big thing.

Demon's Mirror

Harry Bogosian

Based loosely off of "The Snow Queen", a story by Hans Christian Andersen, we see things take a different turn as the demons become central characters, and the side characters stick around. Yup, that's the only differences. Enjoy!

Lilith's Word

inkPangur

If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?

Wychwood

Varethane

When Tiara's pyrokinesis is finally noticed, she is captured by a magical research organization for study. If she cooperates, she could be helping to save humanity from a dire threat - but can she trust them?

The End

August Brown, Cory Brown

Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!

The Lonely Vincent Bellingham

Diana Huh

Vincent is an unkind man looking to disappear, and finds himself in the care of a vampire and her two wicked children.

Sufficiently Remarkable

Maki Naro

Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.

Dumbing of Age

David M Willis

Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.

Love Not Found

Gina Biggs

Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.

Real Science Adventures

Brian Clevinger

Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!

Sam & Fuzzy

Sam Logan

Troubled by gangster rodents, lovesick vampire stalkers, or confused ninja assassins? Don't panic! Sam and Fuzzy are here to help. (For a reasonable fee.)

The Soldier of Love p.81

Posted June 13, 2025 at 12:01 am

We continue serialization of the collected version of the three-issue 2017 miniseries Empowered and the Soldier of Love, written and laid out by me and featuring full-color artwork by the Chilean webcomic artist Karla Diaz.

Panel 2: Gotta love Senor Pangolin's popping eye as the rest of him bursts into a spray of hearts.

Panel 3: As I've noted before, "HOOG" is a grunted noise derived from a key moment in Stephen King's Misery, uttered by ol' Annie Wilkes as she's walloped by a typewriter. (Not the sort of "dialogue" one often sees in prose, to put it mildly.)

Next week on the webcomic, we barrel ahead through the conclusion of this miniseries, dear readers!

Today’s Patreon update: Originally done as a means of scratching out more worktime to complete the long-gestating Empowered vol. 12, I've switched over to a Monday/ Wednesday/ Friday Patreon posting schedule that won't feature the fixed content format I previously used. So, who knows what today's post might feature? Could be Life Drawing or Distressed Damsels content (both of which are featured at least three times per month), or something in the Work Stages, Vintage Con Sketches or Design departments, or possibly something entirely new, such as updates on fantasy test projects The Last Party and The Chaste and the Chained. Golly!

-Adam Warren

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